Butlerian jihad

Butlerian Jihad English Alternative forms en Butlerian Jihad Etymology From en Butlerian jihad holy war, crusade, from the science fiction epic Dune (novel) Dune (1965), in which a war had been waged in the Duneverse by the last free humans against autonomous ("thinking") machines. en Butlerian refers to English novelist Samuel Butler (novelist) Samuel Butler, whose 1872 work Erewhon describes a society that destroys all complex machines preemptively out of fear of their replacement by those very machines.en We need a Butlerian Jihad against AI Erik Hoel 2021-06-30 The Intrinsic Perspective Substack https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/we-need-a-butlerian-jihad-against https://web.archive.org/web/20260917110054/https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/we-need-a-butlerian-jihad-against 17 September 2026 Noun en AI A notional large-scale and vehement opposition to and suppression of artificial intelligence. en 2005 Michael Chorost https://www.google.com/books/edition/Rebuilt/C7xKydCPaOsC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22a+Butlerian+jihad%22&pg=PA33 Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human 33 Were there ever a Butlerian Jihad, he could probably melt into his native North Carolina backwoods and pass himself off as a soft-spoken farmer until he slipped and blurted out a phrase such as "CO2 laser stapedotomy" in polite company. en 2017 John Michael Greer https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Retro_Future/24YuDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22a+Butlerian+jihad%22&pg=PT180 The Retro Future: Looking to the Past to Reinvent the Future 180 What these first stirrings suggest to me, in fact, is that the way forward isn't a Butlerian jihad, but a Butlerian carnival—a sensuous celebration of the world outside the cubicle farms and the glass screens. w:Ross Douthat An Interview With the Herald of the Apocalypse 2025-05-15 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/opinion/artifical-intelligence-2027.html Well, Daniel Kokotajlo (researcher) Daniel Kokotajlo, thank you so much. And I will see you on the front lines of the Butlerian Jihad soon enough. https://archive.ph/ucZjd 2025-05-21 Usage notes Previously, this term was little known outside the context of the Dune science fiction franchise. It has since gained traction as a term in popular culture with the advent of powerful commercially-available machine-learning text-, image- and video-generating AIs in the early to mid-2020s. See also en Erewhonian References Further reading Dune (franchise) Butlerian Jihad en eponyms terms derived from fiction